Process of treating cheap skins in imitation of more expensive furs



Sept. 13, 12327.

A. NATHAN PROCESS OF TREATING CHEAP SKINS IN IMITATION OF MORE EXPENSIVE FURS Filed April 15. 1926 ZZZ/red 4675a fie)" 45. oured pattern. The colouring Patented Sept. 13, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED NATHAN, or LnIrzrd, GERMANY.

PBOCESSOF TREATINGGHEAP SKINS IN IMITATION 01 MORE EXPENSIVE FUBS.

Application filed April 18, 1926, Serial No. 101,808, and in Germany June 24, 1925.

The object of this invention is to treat skins for ornamental purposes, and more particularly to provide cheap skins with markings in imitation of more expensive furs, so

. 5 that a cheap and durable substitute for such furs is obtained.

In the accompanying drawing,- Figure 1 is a plan view of a short haired skin, such as a calf skin treated in accordance with my invention.

' Figure 2 is a face view of the die or em bossing plate.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken online 3-3 of Figure 2.

' I select for the purposes of the invention a unicoloredshort-haired or smooth-haired skin A,for'example calf-skin. By smooth-haired skin I mean a skin on which the hairs lie flat.

This skin may be dressed and generally prepared according to well known methods, and

may be dyed if dyeing is suitable for the particula-r purpose in new. According to the invention I stamp or emboss the unicolored skin as indicated by the deep-shaded mark 2 in s (one indicated at A) 'onthe unicolored skin surface in Figure 1, with a die plateor B having the desired pattern B.-

p lates he pattern may, as already stated, be a pattern in accordance with that of some more expensive skin which lends itself to re roduction in this way, for example foa or Breitschwanz (broad-tail) but alternatively it may be an arbitrary pattern, regu lar or otherwise. the temperature and duration of the pressure being such as are found to give good results in each particular case; a-definite general rule cannot be given in reggrd to the same, because not only do the s 'ns of 40 different species differ greatly from each other in their texture and so on, but individual skins of the same species vary considerably. I

The plate may be inked to impart a colof the pattern may improve its effect, an may in some cases be necessary as an adjunct to perfect imitation, but the stamping or embosslng ac- "tion affects. the skin in respect of the directions in which the hairs lie, so that apart from the application of colouring matter by the plate the efiect of a coloured pattern is to The plate may be heated,

. skin, the desired effect is,- or may be, obtained in part by suitable selection of the raw skin and in part by dyeing the skin, or by inking the whole of the plate used for embossing, as when a skin of a single colour, for examlo a Breitschwanz (broad tail) skin isto e imitated.

I am aware that imitations of-skins have been produced by embossing plush and other fabrics, the same being generally ironed, brushed or steamed and then treated with hot embossing plates. The imitation is in that case, of course, purely superficial, because the material itse f 'is not a skin. With my invention, on the other hand, the material is in fact a skin, and is accordingly capable of bein used, in all or most respects, as an actual su titute for the skin of which it is an imitation.

' Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim' is The process of treating a natural fur 'tb impart to it an appearance of a difl'erent natural fur, which consists in taking a unicolored natural skin having short or smooth hairs upon its haired side and embossing the said haired side of saidskin with markings of a pattern and coloring corresponding to the natural fur to be imitated while physically displacing hairs at points from their natural positions so as to produce hair partings with color shades giving different light reflexes.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto afiixed my signature.

ALFRED NATHAN. 

